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6) Elmer
Author
Pub. Date
[1989], c1968
Language
English
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Description
All the elephants of the jungle were gray except Elmer, who was a patchwork of brilliant colors until the day he got tired of being different and making the other elephants laugh.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Elephant has a bucket of blocks and wants to build something tall. Something as tall as Elephant. But will it stay up? CRASH! BOOM! Not this time. Build it again? One block. Two blocks? Four blocks? Its still not as tall as Elephant. More blocks! Now will it stay up? Now will it be as tall as Elephant? Build, balance, count-- question, estimate, measure-- predict, crash, and build again! Young children will happily follow along as Elephant goes through...
Author
Language
English
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A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive.
If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own.
For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Adult Winter Reading Challenge
Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025
Adult Winter Reading: Heartwarming Stories
Adult Winter Reading: Historical Fiction
Adult Winter Reading Challenge 2025
Adult Winter Reading: Heartwarming Stories
Adult Winter Reading: Historical Fiction
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"The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940, Hettie meets Violet, a three-year-old Asian elephant arriving...
17) Hooray for hat!
Author
Language
English
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Description
Elephant wakes up in a grumpy mood, but a present on his doorstep--a hat--cheers him and he sets out to greet his neighbors who all, it seems, need hats of their own.
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Language
English
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Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
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